"Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for……" — Anna Quindlen
"Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."
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171 Quotes by Anna Quindlen
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The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we…
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I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid…
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I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehersal, and that…
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The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can…
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With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not…
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People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to…
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All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never…
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If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.
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There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your…
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Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.
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Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my…
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It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents…
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